A big concert comes to town tonight. Jason Aldean brings his Night Train Tour to the FedExForum at 7:30. This brought a couple of questions to my mind: “Who is Jason Aldean, and why is he on a tour named after a cheap wine the bums drink?” A visit to Wikipedia revealed that he is a country artist with hits including “Green Tractor,” “Dirt Road Anthem,” and “She’s Country.” Hmm. Seeing as how I’m not a fan of country music, I think I’ll pass on the chance to go. I bet North Mississippi will be well-represented in the crowd tonight as compared to the average FedExForum show.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the bums, I heard a new opening line last night: “Awww dude. You look you’re from California, or Florida, or one of them places.” Wrong. I suppose if he had correctly guessed that I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, I’d have given him a dolla.<\/p>\n
The South Main Association will show the movie Beetlejuice<\/i> in the vacant lot between Earnestine & Hazel’s and Sache tonight at 6:45. It’s free to attend, and you can bring lawn chairs and blankets.<\/p>\n
Memphis Made Brewing Company has added two more Downtown accounts: Central BBQ and Tamp and Tap. Tamp and Tap, by the way, is having a local beer “Kill the Keg” event tomorrow beginning at 4:00 with $2.50 pints.<\/p>\n
Normally I don’t blog events happening in Cordova, but this is a really cool event: LivingSocial has a deal for half off tickets to India Fest<\/a> for two or four. The festival is a celebration of Indian culture, with food, music, dance, and traditional clothing.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, back Downtown there’s an ongoing Groupon for Spaghetti Warehouse<\/a>. You get $20 worth of food for $12 in this deal.<\/p>\n The Green Beetle starts a new 7-week trivia league tonight. The 7-week winner will receive a trip to Nashville and a VIP tour of Yazoo Brewing Co. Hotel and gas card will be included.<\/p>\n If you like to eat cheap crap, Krystal will be selling its burgers for 25 cents tonight from 7 to 11. Add cheese for 5 cents more.<\/p>\n That’ll do it for now. I’ll be out at the usual spots around 5:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A big concert comes to town tonight. Jason Aldean brings his Night Train Tour to the FedExForum at 7:30. This brought a couple of questions to my mind: “Who is Jason Aldean, and why is he on a tour named after a cheap wine the bums drink?” A visit to Wikipedia revealed that he is … Continue reading “Thur update: Jason Aldean, Beetlejuice, Memphis Made, India Fest, Spaghetti Warehouse Groupon, Nashville trip giveaway, and Krystal news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14541,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/14541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}